Bio

Christopher Barbuto is a partner in the firm’s New York office. Chris’ principal practice area is Mergers and Acquisitions and he has significant experience with complex cross-border transactions, “carve out” dispositions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Chris has also advised clients on several antitrust “remedy” M&A transactions. Chris was with GE for nine years prior to joining Sidley. During his tenure at GE, Chris had significant roles in some of GE’s most noteworthy M&A matters, including GE’s sale of its Global Plastics business to Saudi Arabia Basic Industries for US$11.6 billion and its investment in and worldwide alliance with China’s XD Electric Group. Many of Chris’s M&A transactions at GE included sourcing or other commercial relationships. Chris spent four years with GE Capital’s Energy Financial Services business, where he counseled GE on its power generation joint venture with ArcLight Capital Partners and GIC, GE’s ownership and eventual sale of a controlling stake in the Regency Energy Partners MLP and numerous other infrastructure, energy, project finance, M&A and “clean tech” venture capital transactions. Prior to joining GE, Chris was an associate at a large international law firm where he practiced in the areas of M&A and securities law in New York and Paris. Chris passed Level I of the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) Program.